The Mexican-American community: Data and research roundup
…and type of food stores in an urban, Mexican American US community. Data were from a commercial food store data source and the US Census. Multivariate count models were used…
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Human appropriation of global production in the 20th century
…bioenergy scenario, which implies a growth in HANPP to 44%; that is, a 78% increase over the present value.” Keywords: agriculture, food, land use intensity, resource use, global carbon cycle….
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Study-based story ideas for community journalists
…A study from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, “The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact,” looks at increases in the amount of food that…
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Gender and development in Africa: Roundup of recent research
…U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that “closing the yield gap by providing women with resources equal to those available to men would increase agricultural output in developing countries…
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Global fisheries: Benefits, trade-offs of alternative approaches to recovering depleted fisheries
…ecological and stewardship concerns. Organizations such as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations keep statistics on the…
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Oil revenues for public investment in Africa: Targeting urban or rural areas?
…infrastructure spending is allocated neutrally between agriculture and non-agriculture,” the results are significantly more beneficial to the poor. Favoring infrastructure investments in Ghana’s northern agricultural sections has “important drawbacks.” Trying…
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NAFTA: Reviewing the research
…Representative, which develops and coordinates American trade policy. Canada is America’s top export market for goods. Agriculture NAFTA has had a “profound” impact on American farming and food production, the…
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The impact of future U.S. land-use change on urban areas, forests, habitat and biodiversity
…live and food to eat, naturally, and the question becomes where and how — and what the environmental consequences of our choices will be. Research has shown that humans are…
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How to mitigate climate change: Key facts from the U.N.’s 2014 report
…are likely to be even more extreme, with millions of people displaced by rising sea levels and global food supplies under threat. Around the world, progress and inaction are present…
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Marine animal extinctions and increasing dangers for oceans
…conflict, impairing storm protection, and reducing flows of other ecosystem services…. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 40 times more wild animal biomass is harvested from the…
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